Ethics, economics, and politics [[electronic resource] ] : principles of public policy / / I.M.D. Little

• Autore: Little Ian Malcolm David
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (178 p.)
• Disciplina: 320/.6/01
• Soggetto topico: Economics - Moral and ethical aspects; Economics - Philosophy; Political science - Philosophy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I. ECONOMICS AND PHILOSOPHY; 1. Personal Utility and Welfare; Expected Utility and Risk; Risk and Fluctuations; Risk and Equality; Utility and Positive Economics; Utility and Normative Economics; 2. Collective Utility and Welfare; 3. Welfare Economics; Theoretical Welfare Economics; Applied Welfare Economics and Cost-Benefit Analysis; PART II. POLITICS AND PHILOSOPHY; 4. The Role of the State; Limitations of State Authority; Individual Rights; Social Contract and Property; Property and Property Rights ; 5. Utilitarianism: Theory and ApplicationsUtility and the Value of Life; The State and Population Policy; What Constituency Now?-On Citizens and Foreigners; The State and Saving for the Future; 6. Utilitarianism, Justice, and Equality; Utilitarianism and Equality; Rawls's Theory of Justice; The Meaning of Justice; Distributive Justice; Interstate Distributive Justice; Dworkin and Equalizing Resources; The Measurement of Equality; Summary; 7. Contractarianism; 8. Communitarianism; PART III. ECONOMICS AND POLITICS; Introduction; 9. Games, Conventions, and Public Goods; Games; Conventions ; Public Goods and the State10. Positive Political Economy; Endogenizing Government; Democratic and Authoritarian Government; Collective Choice and Voting; Economic Policy under Relatively Autonomous Government; Economic Policy under Democracy; Modelling Political Economy Explanations of Policies and Trends; The Political Economy of Protection in Industrialized Countries; The Growth of Government in Industrialized Countries; Protection and Import Substitution in Developing Countries; Policy Reform in Developing Countries; An Interim Jejune Report on Endogenizing Government ; 11. Normative Political EconomyFurther Consideration of Government and Distribution; Rent-seeking and Corruption; PART IV. ETHICS, ECONOMICS, AND POLITICS; 12. The Principles of Public Policy; A Résumé of Parts I, II, and III; The Philosophical Framework; The Scale of Government Expenditure; The Boundaries of Public Policy; References; Index of Names; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Index of Subjects; B; C; D; E; G; J; P; Q; R; S; U; V; W
• Sommario/riassunto: This book studies the interfaces of ethics, economics, and politics. Public policy issues involve all three of these subjects. Although it may be seen as suggesting the nucleus of a joint university course, the book is accessible to and should interest all those concerned with political decisions. Any such decision needs a criterion for judging whether one action or outcome is better than another. Even a dictator must to some extent be concerned about the economic elfare of thecitizens; and a democratic government more so. But how is a person's economic welfare to be judged? Furthermore, any p
• Titolo autorizzato: Ethics, economics, and politics
• ISBN: 0-19-926872-X; 0-19-153140-5; 1-281-93058-X; 9786611930585
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465749003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II